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I picked up a sweet orange shotgun last night at lvl 19 right after the mines. 57dmg x9, 60ish acc. 1.5 fire rate, 2x explosive and a 4x zoom, definitely the best shotgun I've seen so far. It was the item of the day at the weapons booth and it cost me almost all my cash 43g's. I'm not too sure that ...

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seems that if the host quits the game before everyone else has you're character doesn't get saved. This happened a few times last night. Also, is anyone else having trouble hosting private games? Only two of the 4 people i played with last night could host. This brings up all kinds of issues if anyo...

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I may not be able to remove my system drive, but my 2nd internal drive is still up for grabs. The policy tab only lets me choose between "quick removal" which doesn't cache disk writes and "better performance" which does cache. Better performance is the default on all of my drives.

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So I just installed windows 7 and to my great surprise my eSata external drive now appears in the in list of items I can eject under the "safely remove hardware" icon in the task bar. I couldn't get this to work at all in vista so I'm pretty happy that I'm noticing improvements in windows7...

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steelcity_ballin wrote:
kb79 wrote:
it'll be coming around 5:00 est, when i get home

huuuuuuurry up i wana play!!!!

Already sent, but it doesn't come out until the 26th anyway

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it'll be coming around 5:00 est, when i get home

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Id be in for 1 as well.. if you don't already have 4.. pay pal works for me too.

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hrmm.... today the studio 14z dells are only $184 off... but still cost $699...

This sort of false advertising has to be illegal...

Its also lost its "deal of the day" sticker in favor of a "brand new!" sticker

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thanks for that link, lot of good info there.

This looks like its pretty good bang for your buck... only problem is it comes with 32bit vista.... I'd upgrade the 64bit windows 7 RC...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6834220519

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don't be fooled by the "day of deals" thing on the studio 14z. I've been looking at buying one for a few weeks now and its always been $699 to start - with or without the "deal of the day" sticker. You'll notice pretty much everything at dell.com has instant savings - it just mak...

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I guess I was unclear, I mentioned not having an OS as a possible way to save money. Not necessarily as a requirement. Both of those options look pretty good. Neither specify a screen type, does anyone know if they are matted or glossy? Also does anyone have experience with a 9100M G and what they c...

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Thanks for the advice. I'll look into acer a bit more.

Does anyone know how well the GMA shared mem graphics work? I assume that they aren't very good... but could they run spore / sims3 type games decently?

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I'm in the market for a new laptop for my fiancee. She generally uses her computer for office tasks - word, excel, web browsing, email - but also likes to play games like the sims and spore and use iTunes. She has an old HP laptop that can barely handle iTunes and word at the same time and its time ...

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Morphine,
I'm having a problem that maybe related to yours but with a 4850 and the accelero. I'm getting BSOD crashes that seem to be heat related but my CPU and GPU temp readings should be fine. Can you describe what the VRMs on your card look like?

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We've had other reports of problems with that GPU cooling system -- the GPU stays cool, but the VRMs do not. It may be your extra 120mm fan was sufficient to keep that problem in check until ambient temps got too high. I read that other post and was wondering the same thing. I believe I have the he...

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definately still crashing.... anyone have any ideas?

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First off, here are my system specs: CPU: E8400 @ 3.6 ghz CPU cooler: XIGMATEK HDT-S1283 mobo: Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R graphics: 4850 gpu cooler: Accelero S1 rev2 w/ extra 120mm fan strapped on it RAM: 2 x 2GB OCZ Reaper DDR2 1066 HDD: WD 640GB DVD burner: Samsung SH-S203N CASE/PSU: Antec Sonata 3 I b...

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i have an accelero s1 rev2 on my 4850, works great and fits nicely on the card but it is big and does take up a lot of room in my case... partially because i zip tied a nice and quiet 120mm fan to it.

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I just got the Benq G2400WD which I believe is also a TN monitor and I couldn't be happier. TN panels are generally the cheapest and fastest LCD's out there and unless you do a lot of graphic design/photo editing a TN panel will be fine. If you're gaming keep in mind that a lot of the other "be...

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I also got a free 32bit copy of vista from school and I was able to get a 64bit replacement disk from microsoft for $10 and about 2 weeks of waiting. Just go to the link and input your cd key... it doesn't hurt to try.

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so much for that... switching the ports seemed to help for a few days but now its switching back again...

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I did pretty much the same thing (with the vram heatsinks and artic silver paste) but I used an accelero s1 with a 120mm zip tied to it. My card idles around 38c and load is about 59c.

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swapping the dvi ports seemed to help(so far)... hopefully I've solved the problem.

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Hmm...that sounds like something that is occurring when the system goes into power-saving mode. Possibly it's losing track of which output is which, for some reason. Physically switching the ports might help. Yeah I'm going to try that when i get home from work... if that doesn't work I might try d...

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my main monitor is a 24in wide screen and my 2nd is a 17in 4:3, unfortunately with my current computer desk I don't have room to have the 2nd monitor on the right and still have the main monitor directly in front of me. I'm using a ATI 4850. I found some tips here but they didn't seem to help... it ...

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Usacomp2k3 wrote:
Simple solution: buy a laptop and use that for IM, browsing, e-mail while gaming. That's what I always did.

forget the gaming i just want my dual monitors to work on the desktop....

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I tried ultramon and i still have the same problem... it keeps switching my 2ns monitor to the right side...

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Oops.. dam naming conventions... I actually have the GA-EP45-DS3R mobo which has a ICH10R south bridge. I have ACHI enabled in the bios and the lastest drivers and intel matrix storage software but i still dont get the "safely remove hardware" icon in the system tray. I'm using vista 64bit...

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I haven't seen any problems like that yet but I do have another issue maybe some of you know how to fix... My 2nd monitor is on the left and I set it that way in the display settings and through ati catalyst. This way when i move my mouse off the screen to the left it appears on my second monitor ju...

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I just bought a new monitor and I set it up with my desktop extended onto my old monitor. I'm running Vista64 and wondering if there is anyway to have a full screen game running on 1 monitor and web browsing /chats on the 2nd monitor - transferring mouse focus w/o minimizing the game. So far my sear...

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